I am possibly preparing for marketing my own tool (a Chrome extension) and collect the activities I can use for future visibility and possible purchases.
Right now, I am thinking about basics:

• SEO within the plugin (name, description, description in the Chrome Store + visuals)

• Listings in directories

• Reddit mentions

• Building in public

I am aware that it is not sufficient, and there will be much more work.

I've been pretty impressed at the amount of products people (including myself) have been able to create which got me curious... do vibe coders or AI-primary builders have a place in a company or team?
My thinking is the more technically adept would work on the core-focus while vibecoders can assist with other tasks that shouldn't be the main devs focus...like a potential feature add, minor changes, or even exploring different ways of modifying the existing product.
I'm curious what you all think, would you hire a vibe coder?

It seems to me that the framing of many of the posts that I have seen on here involves looking for "the one growth hack" that got traction for someone's product; but in reading the specifics, it often turns out that they simply did good old-fashioned marketing work: answered all the comments, personally on-boarded early users, wrote substantive content rather than promotional content. That's not hacking; that's marketing done well.

I find myself wondering whether the growth hacking framing is harming entrepreneurs in searching for a shortcut that allows them to avoid the boring work, when it is the boring work that actually brings traction.

Half of what I ship is a crawler, and the failures I dread are the quiet ones. A company moved its careers page to a JS widget last month, our parser kept returning HTTP 200 with an empty list, and from the outside it simply looked like they had stopped hiring. Nothing alerted, because technically nothing had failed.

I ended up alerting on the shape of the data instead of the status code: if a source drops more than half its rows overnight, a human looks at it before anything downstream moves. That threshold is a guess, and it still misses the slow rot, where a site changes one selector and you lose a third of the fields without ever losing the page.

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